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Read the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of the IU School of Education's Chalkboard, featuring Professor Sasha Barab and his video game Quest Atlantis.
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The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra; Trumpet Master Irvin Mayfield
April 26, 8 p.m., IU Auditorium, Bloomington -- Straight from the smoke-filled clubs and backwater nook joints of New Orleans, Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra are bringing the gift of jazz to Bloomington. This 16-piece orchestra celebrates the musical heroes of the Big Easy playing the timeless tunes of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Martin, Professor Longhair, and those who laid the groundwork for America's true great art form.
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Students fuse their art to create "Hammer and Nail"
They spoke in different languages -- he in "music," she in "dance." Still, Gabriel Lubell and Kelly McCormick Bangs and their fellow composers and choreographers from Indiana University put their differences together to create robust works for the third annual "Hammer and Nail." Writing for dance, for many, was new. "With dance you are required to keep in mind the piece is going to be supported by movement," Lubell said. "The dancers make it make sense."
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Sixty years ago, the first Indiana University Opera Theater production took place in an auditorium that was built as part of an army barracks during World War II. This month, IU Opera began celebrating its 60th anniversary with a reprise of that same opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann -- except this year it was performed on a stage that rivals New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.
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The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will host its annual Big Band Extravaganza, featuring IU jazzmen David N. Baker and Pat Harbison, on April 19. The Big Band Extravaganza merges two outstanding jazz ensembles of student performers trained by Baker and Harbison. This year's concert, "It Don't Mean a Thing . . . If It Ain't Got That Swing," will present masterpieces of the swing era and guest performances by vocalists Delores King Williams and Everett Greene.
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From Tashkent, Uzbekistan, The Ilkhom Theatre of Mark Weil is visiting the Indiana University Bloomington campus with a dynamic performance that brings the audience onstage with the performers. White White Black Stork, based on the stories by author Abdulla Kadyri, will perform for one night only.
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Fifty-one years ago, in the small Midwestern city of Bloomington, a brilliant young pianist from Germany named Menahem Pressler joined the faculty at IU's burgeoning School of Music. In the decade around his appointment, some of the best and brightest musicians of Pressler's generation would center their professional lives in Bloomington.
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Music archives and libraries around the country are using new standards developed at Indiana University to digitally preserve endangered sound recordings. With more than 110,000 recordings, the IU Archives of Traditional Music is one of the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States.
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The April 3, 2008, issue of Live at IU featured a profile on Tim Borden, scenic designer for the play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Also in this issue were stories about the Singing Hoosiers' April 5 concert, a look at the IU Soul Revue's upcoming show, a preview of Little 500, highlights from the next Moveable Feast of the Arts concert, details on the Choice magazine winners from IU, and a story on the Jacobs School's Music Theory Department.
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Visit IU at the Indiana State Fair
For the third year in a row, the Indiana State Fair will be all about Indiana University for an entire day. IU makes a big difference in the state, from improving Hoosier health to building a better Hoosier economy. On Aug. 7, IU Day, we'll celebrate our commitment to Indiana.
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